Comments on: God Will Never Give You More….

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:06:30 +0000

Fantastic post. In fact, I blogged about the same topic with similar conclusions not too long ago. You’re exactly right. If life never presented difficulties beyond our own limitations, we’d never need God. But oh how we need him….

By: Missy @ It's Almost Naptime

Missy @ It's Almost Naptime — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:09:18 +0000

Amen.

Should be retired right behind “God helps those who help themselves.”

By: Lynne

Lynne — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:00:15 +0000

I loved this post because I too just realized this in my own walk with the Lord. God had given is a child with possible health issues as I’m due in 30 days. I have 3 other daughters toraise along with this new baby. There are no answers that we can know during this pregnancy do its just trusting the Lord in all this. Thanks for the great post.

By: Jo

Jo — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:32:58 +0000

Nancy,
I just saw this today, and for me today it is so timely. I needed to hear this. Thank you.

By: Shari

Shari — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:50:37 +0000

I Cor. 10:13 is about *temptation*, not *trials*. The two are very different, though Satan will use a trial that God sends to try to tempt us to believe that God is not good and that He doesn’t love us.

When I was pregnant with our twins and had a two-yr-old and a one-yr-old, lots of people told me, “Don’t worry, God will never give you more than you can handle.” It was very often Christians who were just repeating bad theology without thinking it through. That twin pregnancy with two toddlers running around sure enough WAS more than I could handle! But the Lord was there every step of the way, sending help when I needed it, in every way I needed it. He knew I needed the next level of faith and trust in Him, so He sent me something hard to go through.

And now we have a 5, a 4, two 2s, and an 8 mo. old. When I have a particularly trying day, I look back on what I learned and can look better to Him!

By: hill

hill — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:40:12 +0000

thank you.
i have heard this over and over again and it’s not biblical! thank you for shining a light on Jesus and what He can do.
xoxo.

By: Holly Collins

Holly Collins — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:28:07 +0000

WOWZERS! Amen- That gave me some good fuel in the tank. Thank you many times over.

By: Julie P.

Julie P. — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:19:05 +0000

?”So [God} supplies perfectly measured grace to meet the needs of the godly. For daily needs there is daily grace; for sudden needs, sudden grace; for overwhelming need, overwhelming grace. God’s grace is given wonderfully, but not wastefully; freely but not foolishly; bountifully but not blindly.” ~John Blanchard

By: Krista

Krista — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:43:38 +0000

It’s all in the pronouns–maybe we should change the saying to, “God will never give us more than HE can handle.”

Thanks for your loving reminders and admonitions, Nancy. We’re going through a season of things being more than we can handle and so our faith is being stretched and our capacity to trust deepened. It helps to remember that nothing is ever more than God can handle!

Krista

By: Linda T

Linda T — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:13:18 +0000

Amen! True comfort is in Christ, our “way of escape”.